Christopher Reenock

Background:

Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University, 2001. Principal research
and teaching interests are public policy, environmental policy,
comparative public policy and democratic regime stability.

Research Agenda:

Reenock's primary areas of interest are public policy, U.S. environmental
policy, comparative politics and the politics of regime transitions.
His research agenda consists of two areas of interest. His first
area focuses on solutions to and implications of the delegation
problem in regulatory policy. Specifically, he is interested in
the legislative manipulation of the design of administrative agencies
and the consequences of these institutional choices for the delivery
of regulatory policy. His second area focuses on the role of institutions
in (de) stabilizing democratic/authoritarian regimes. Specifically,
he is interested in explaining why some regimes are relatively
more vulnerable to anti-system forces. Among his current research
projects are analyses of the impact of political uncertainty on
state legislators' preferences toward bureaucratic oversight,
the implications of agency design choices for individual-level
environmental compliance and the effect of socioeconomic vulnerability
on democratic regime stability and citizen support for democracy.